Daniel’s Second Vision: The Coming Persecutor of Israel, Part 2

A. Daniel Receives the Vision (1-2)

B. Daniel Relates the Vision (3-14)

   1. A Two-Horned Ram: Medo-Persia (3-4)

   2. A Mighty Male Goat: Greece (5-8)

   3. A Powerful Horn: Antiochus IV Epiphanes (9-14)

C. Gabriel Interprets the Vision (15-26)

   1. The Appearance of Gabriel (15-19)

   2. The Details of the Interpretation (20-26)

      a. The Ram = Medo-Persia (20)

      b. The Goat = Greece (21-22)

         1.The Large Horn = The First King (20)

         2.The Four Horns = Four Simultaneous Kingdoms (21)

      c.The Latter Horn = Antiochus IV Epiphanes (23-26)

D. Daniel Responds to the Vision (27)

   1. He is Exhausted and Sick

   2. He Carries on the King’s Business

   3. He is Astounded and Confused